British Union Proposes Boycott of Israeli U.'s

By AISHA LABI

Members of Britain's main faculty union courted international
controversy last week with a vote that will set in motion a debate
over whether the union should boycott Israeli universities and
refuse to cooperate with Israeli academics.

Delegates to the first meeting of the new University and College
Union, which has 120,000 members, cast 158 votes in favor and 99
against a motion condemning "the complicity of Israeli academia in
the occupation, which has provoked a call from